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Concerning the marine environment, in recent years, several projects and political actions at national and international level have been advanced in order to reduce the effects of eutrophication in the marine coastal areas. Preserving and improving the marine environment requires the achievement of a good ecological status of waters, without which the acquatic ecosystem and the human activities of marine coastal zones could be strongly at risk. This is the proposal of EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) which represents a major advance in European policy with the concepts of classes of water quality and water management. The matter of water quality was already pointed out by the Nitrate Directive 676/EC in 1991, by promoting as criteria of monitoring of fresh and coastal water quality not only the evaluation of nitrogen concentrations, but also assessment of the eutrophic state.The same Directive considers and promoted ecotoxicological tools for setting Environmental Quality Standards of substance. The aim of this study is to compare the experience of National and International Research Institution European, in the use of eutrophication indicators, in order to open new point of knowledge and find new approach to increase the environmental information for eutrophication among decision- makers and research Institutions. While the monitoring of coastal marine water is well known, the use of toxicity tests and bioaccumulation is still under development and/or validation.
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COMINO, E. (2006). WATER POLLUTION INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABILITY IN EUROPE, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO COASTAL WATER QUALITY EVALUATION IN ITALY. In: Arapis, G., Goncharova, N., Baveye, P. (eds) Ecotoxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment and Multiple Stressors. NATO Security Through Science Series, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4476-3_17
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